Dr Calvin Moorley

I am a Professor of Diversity and Social Justice in the Adult Nursing Department of London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. My research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, I have followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment.

I published a textbook in 2019 Introduction to Nursing for First Year Students, this textbook uses diverse cultural case studies to convey nursing. I am curently editing a text on Anti Racism for Nursing Praxis: An International Handbook for Nursing Professionals publised by Elisevier.

I successfully launched the Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Public Lecture for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery and the Anionwu awards for Inclusivity in Nursing and Midwifery. My academic interests are in how health is theorized using social media platforms. I am published widely in nursing and social media and developing an area on the use of social media to enhance research literacy of nurses. I hold the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2014. My current work is funded by the European Centre of Excellence for Continuing Professional Development, developing a set of principles for nurses using social media in Europe.

My most recent works include Knowledge, attitude and beliefs on sex among Black Africans; Psychosexual Experiences of FGM survivors and Experience of Stroke among Caribbean populations in the UK and the Caribbean. I currently (2025) hold an NIHR RfPB grant £204,000 on a study on stroke rebatiliation in the community using low economic resources. I collaborate and lead on the Univeristy College London Hopsital REACH U  project on a buddying system for African Caribbean men with prostate cancer. Part of my work focuses on developing a pipeline of Black and Minority Ethnic nurses and midwives in research. I developed and lead the NIHR Into Research programme aimed at racially underrepresented gorups in research. I developed and lead on the ELEVATE programme a career development course for Black and Minority Ethnic Midwives and Neonatal Nurses. 

I am well recognised in the field and this can be seen in my esteem factors which include: Guest Editor 2022 for a special issue on Diversity and Social Justice in Nurse Education Today, Planetary Health and Climate Control Journal of Advanced Nurisng and Journal of Clinical Nursing on LGBTI Health 2017; the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2013/14 by the Royal College of Nursing, and various editorships including Evidence Based Nursing Journal and Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

I collaborate nationally and internationally including working with teams in Trinidad, Jamaica, America and Australia. I publish widely in various nursing journals and have given keynote speeches and public seminars on Race and Health Inequities. I further serve the nursing community on various panels such as the Nursing Times Student Nurses awards; Edith Cavell Awards and Health Service Journal awards. A key objective of my programme of work is to reduce the gap in health equities through developing and improving cultural competence and intelligence.
My external activities includes steering group member of the Mary Seacole Awards; Editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, External examiner to several universities, Chair of the Chief Nursing Officer (England) National Shared Professional Decision-making Council for Research. Member of the Council of Deans for Health Anti- Racist Policy group. I also hold membership of the European Transcultural Nursing Association, Chief Nursing Officer (England) BAME Strategic Advisory Group and Advisory Group Member for Young Migrants Health Project (Anglia Ruskin University Lead Dr Grace Spencer). Faith Place and Health Bishop of London Office. 

I am the lead for research on the Pre Registration BSc, PG Dip and MSc modules Acute and Complex Care in Adult Nursing Appraising Evidence for Practice (Adult Nursing) Implementing Best Practice (Adult Nursing) Care of the Deteriorating Patient I supervise dissertations from BSc to PhD
I contribute to a number of number of post registration courses including the Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Practical issues in data collection, and Reflective Literature Review. I also lecture on the Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care

PhD/Professional Doctorate supervision

Abdullah Ali Naghar: The image of nursing and its impact on nursing recruitment in Saudi Arabia (Expected completion 2023) • Audley Graham: Experience of Black Male Nursing Academics: Inside the walls of higher education 

Jane Crussell: Using creative learning approaches to develop end of life care curriculum 

Joshua Sharman Addressing Medical misinofrmation in helath settings 

Natasha Garraway Charles Navigating spaces: Black women as senior NHS leaders 

Samantha Grant: Black women's experience of the Mental Health Act 

Phil Hoddinott: Public perceptions of men in nursing 

Completed Docotrates 

Dr Mynesha Sankar: The theory gap: towards learning through the student lens 

Dr Rachel Picton: Exploration of Social Media in professional learning 

Dr Debbie Chagadama - An interpretative phenomenological study of the experience of people from the Bengali population who are living with ankylosing spondylitis 

Dr Claire Felix- Baptiste Cracking the Code: An investigation into BME social work students’ academic attainment (June 2019) Dr Shanlee Higgins: Oral fluid intake among people with dementia

Dr Victor Abu: Social justice in pre-registration nursing curriculum: A grounded theory study (Sept 2022) Dr Sarah Ofori Ansha: Young Adults' Experience of dialysis and Kidney Transplant decision making

Dr Shanlee Higgins Oral fluid intake of people with dementia on actute hopstial wards 

Dr Sarah Ofori Ansha Expereinces of Dialyis and Kidney Transpant Decision Making 

PUBLICATIONS LIST 

Edited book

Moorley C  2019 Introduction to Nursing for 1st Year students. Sage  https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/introduction-to-nursing-for-first-year-students/book258583

Moorley C and Oshikanlu R (due 2026) Anti Racism for Nursing Praxis: An international Handbook for Nursing Professionals 

Book Chapters

• Moorley C, Sharman J (2023) Notes on Professionalism in Nursing, in How to be a Successful Nursing Student  Elliot N, Chinn T.
• Moorley C, Northway R, Oishkanlu R, (2023), Embedding Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity in Research in Navigating the maze of research 6^th Edition Debra Jackson, Elizabeth Halcomb and Helen Walthall
• Moorley C, Cathala X, Corcoran N, (2019) Communication in Nursing. In Moorley C, 2019 Introduction to Nursing to First Year Students, Sage London
• Moorley C, Puthenpurakal A, (2019) Professional Skills for Nursing I In Moorley C, 2019 Introduction to Nursing to First Year Students, Sage London
• Moorley C, Sankar M, Kirby S, (2019) Professional Skills for Nursing II In Moorley C, 2019 Introduction to Nursing to First Year Students, Sage London 
• Moorley C, Goodfellow B, Corcoran N (2013) Reaching hard to reach groups In Corcoran N, 2013 Communicating Health Sage London.

Journal papers 

• Moorley, C., Oshikanlu, R., Unsworth, J., Oldman, C. and Allan, H., 2025. Redefining regulation: towards equity and social justice. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Moorley C, Crosby-Nwaobi R Embedding racial diversity, in evidence-informed nursing practice Evidence-Based Nursing Published Online First: 04 October 2024. doi: 10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104154
• Moorley C Foreword 2024 in Bench, S., Credland, N. and Hill, C. eds., 2024. Critical Care Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. John Wiley & Sons.
• Cathala, X. and Moorley, C., 2024. Diffusion of innovation, pre‐registration/licence student nurses' use of social media: A reflexive thematic analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Ofori‐Ansah, S., Evans, M., Baillie, L. and Moorley, C., 2024. Young adults with kidney failure lived experiences of kidney replacement therapy decision‐making. Journal of Renal Care.
• Hollowood, L. and Moorley, C., Embracing diversity in nursing research: essential tips. Evidence-based nursing, pp.ebnurs-2024.
• Higgins, S., Baillie, L., Moorley, C. and Nolan, F., 2023. Person‐centred oral hydration care for older people with dementia admitted to acute hospital wards: Empirical research qualitative. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 32(19-20), pp.7467-7482.
• Cathala, X. and Moorley, C., 2023. Diffusion of social media in nursing education: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, p.105846.
• Abu, V.K. and Moorley, C.R., 2023. Social justice in nursing education: A review of the literature. Nurse Education Today, p.105825.
• Ocho, O.N., Moorley, C., Richardson Sheppard, C., Caesar-Greasley, L.A. and Hardy, S., 2023. Cultural Influences on Mental Health Provision in the Caribbean: How Do Contemporary Perceptions and Beliefs About Persons With Mental Illness Inform Workforce Transformation?. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 34(1), pp.14-23.

• De Sousa, I., Miller, E., Joshua, B., Adams, J. and Moorley, C., Insights on guest editorship for Doctoral Students and Early-career Researchers. Nurse Education Today, 126, pp.105804-105804.
• Moorley, C., 2022. Social justice in critical care nursing: Towards a position statement. Nursing in Critical Care, 27(5), pp.623-624.
• Bueser, T., Skinner, A., Bolton Saghdaoui, L. and Moorley, C., Genomic research: The landscape for nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(9), pp.e99-e100.
• Cathala, X., Ocho, O.N., Mcintosh, N., Watts, P.N. and Moorley, C., An exploration of social participation in Caribbean student nurses' use of social media in their learning journey. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Moorley, C., Nursing while Black: why is racism killing nurses. Nursing Times.
• Cathala, X., Ocho, O.N., Watts, P.N. and Moorley, C., 2021. International student nurses' use of social media for learning: A cross sectional survey. Nurse education today, 107, p.105160.
• Cathala, X., Ocho, O.N., Moorley, C. and Watts, P.N., 2021. Demographic profiling of Caribbean and United Kingdom student nurses' use of social media for professional development. Journal of Professional Nursing, 37(6), pp.1036-1043.
• Moorley, C., Darbyshire, P., Serrant, L., Mohamed, J., Ali, P. and De Souza, R., 2020. Dismantling structural racism: nursing must not be caught on the wrong side of history.
• Moorley, C., Ferrante, J., Jennings, K. and Dangerfield, A., 2020. Decolonizing care of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic patients in the critical care environment: A practical guide. Nursing in Critical Care, 25(5), pp.324-326.
• Burnett, A., Moorley, C., Grant, J., Kahin, M., Sagoo, R., Rivers, E., Deravin, L. and Darbyshire, P., 2020. Dismantling racism in education: In 2020, the year of the nurse & midwife,“it's time.”. Nurse Education Today.
• Moorley C 2021 Racism and black nurses: why profession must get on the right side of history Nursing Standard Vol 11 (13)
• Kua, J., Patel, R., Nurmi, E., Tian, S., Gill, H., Wong, D.J., Moorley, C., Nepogodiev, D., Ahmad, I. and El-Boghdadly, K., 2021. healthcareCOVID: a national cross-sectional observational study identifying risk factors for developing suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in UK healthcare workers. PeerJ, 9, p.e10891.
• Cathala X, Moorley C (2020) Skills for newly qualified nurses 3: managing errors and mistakes. Nursing Times [online]; 24/06/2020
• Cathala X, Moorley C (2020) Skills for newly qualified nurses 2: identifying and managing stress. Nursing Times [online]; 116: 15/10/2020.
• Atwal, A., Phillip, M. and Moorley, C., 2020. Senior nurses’ perceptions of junior nurses’ incident reporting: A qualitative study. Journal of Nursing Management. doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13063

• Cathala X, Moorley C 2020 Performing an A-G assessment- a step by step guide Nursing Times 116 (1) 53-55
• Moorley C, Cathala X (2019) How to appraise qualitative research Evidence-Based Nursing 22:10-1
• Moorley C,Cathala X (2019) How to appraise mixed methods research Evidence-Based Nursing ;22:38-41.
• Ramage, C, Moorley, C., (2019). A narrative synthesis on healthcare students use and understanding of social media: Implications for practice. Nurse Education Today.
• Wills, J., Sykes, S., Hardy, S., Joshua, K., Moorley, C. and Ocho, O., (2019). Gender and health literacy: men’s health beliefs and behavior in Trinidad. Health Promotion International.
• Moorley, C. and Chinn, T., (2019). Social media participatory CPD for nursing revalidation, professional development and beyond. British Journal of Nursing, 28(13), pp.870-877.
• Cathala X, Moorley C (2018) How to appraise quantitative research Evidence-Based Nursing 21:99-101.
• Cathala X, Moorley C (2018). Selecting IV fluids to manage fluid loss in critically ill patients.Nursing Times, 114(12), 41-44.
• Moorley CR, Cahill S(2018) Experiences of African-Caribbean women of their body after stroke. Nursing Times [online]; 114: 5, 52-55.
• Oscar Noel Ocho, Calvin Moorley & Kathy Ann Lootawan(2018) Fathers’ presence in the birth room – implications for professional practice in the Caribbean, Contemporary Nurse, 54:6, 617-629, DOI: 1080/10376178.2018.1552524
• Thompson S., Moorley C. & Barratt J. (2017) A comparative study on the clinical decision-making processes of nurse practitioners vs. medical doctors using scenarios in a secondary care environment. Journal of Advanced Nursing 73(5), 1097–1110. doi: 10.1111/jan.13206
• Moorley C, Corcoran N, Cahill C. (2016) Stroke Among African Caribbean Women: lay beliefs of risks and causes, Journal of Clinical Nursing 25(3-4), pp. 403–411. doi: 10.1111/jocn.13061
• Moorley C and Chinn T. (2016) Developing Nursing Leadership in Social Media, Journal of Advanced Nursing 72(3), pp. 514–520. doi: 10.1111/jan.12870.
• Moorley C, Nevillie S, Johnson J. (2016) Being Responsive: promoting LGBTI Health and Well- being. Journal of Clinical Nursing DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13596
• Bardi J and Moorley C (2016) The physical health of individuals with serious mental illness: identification of areas for improvement Primary Care doi: 10.7748/phc.2016.e1149
• Ferguson, C., DiGiacomo, M., Saliba, B., Green, J., Moorley, C., Wyllie, A. and Jackson, D. (2016) “First year nursing students’ experiences of social media during the transition to university: A focus group study,” Contemporary Nurse, , pp. 1–11. doi: 10.1080/10376178.2016.1205458.
• Neville, S., Adams, J., Moorley, C. and Jackson, D. (2016) “The condom imperative in anal sex - one size may not fit all: A qualitative descriptive study of men who have sex with men (MSM),” Journal of Clinical Nursing, . doi: 10.1111/jocn.13507.
• Moorley C and Watson R. (2015) NMC Code advice on digital communications. Nursing Times, 111(14), pp. 22–23
• Moorley C R, Cahill S and Corcoran NT. (2015) Life after Stroke: Coping mechanisms among African Caribbean Women, Health & Social Care in the Community, doi: 10.1111/hsc.12256.
• Moorley, C., 2015, September. Life after stroke: Releasing the cultural hostage. International Journal of Stroke 10, pp. 25-25). NJ USA: Wiley-Blackwell
• Ferguson C, Moorley C. and Jackson D. (2015) 8 reasons why every doctoral student should have a Twitter account , Advances in Nursing Doctoral Education and Research, 3(1), pp. 16–19. doi: http://nursing
• Shorten, A. and Moorley, C., Selecting the sample. Evidence-based nursing, 17(2), pp.32-33.
• Moorley, C.R. and Chinn, T., 2014. Nursing and Twitter: creating an online community using hashtags. Collegian, 21(2), pp.103-109.
• Moorley, C., Corcoran, N. and Sanya, M., 2014. Breast cancer awareness among an inner city group of Nigerian women. Primary Health Care, 24(3).
• Moorley, C., Cahill, S., Tunariu, A. and Scott, O., 2014. Impact of stroke: a functional, psychological report of an inner-city multiracial population. Primary Health Care, 24(4).
• Moorley, C. and Watson, R., 2015. NMC code advice on digital communications. Nursing Times, 111(14), pp.22-23.
• Moorley, C.R. and Corcoran, N., 2014. Defining, profiling and locating older people: an inner city Afro-Caribbean experience. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(15-16), pp.2083-2085.